Recovery Is Possible

[mjalti]

[jaredduck]

guys who rarely wear suits look at least 385% hotter when wearing a suit while guys who usually wear suits look 451% hotter when wearing casual clothes trust me this is science

[thelatestkate]

December 2020 Illustrations ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ

[recovery-unicorn]

Me: you don’t have to be extremely struggling to go to therapy. you can go when things suck a little bit

Also me: *avoids going back to therapy because it’s easier than not looking at someone in the face when talking about my sexual assault in high school and the struggles related to that*

[exquisite-peculiarity]

Sometimes self care is unfun. Sometime it’s really unpleasant.

Crying in therapy because you finally opened up

Waking up early to reset your sleep schedule

Eating healthy food

Getting moving when all you want to do is sleep

Washing your face and brushing your teeth

Doing the dishes

Self care isn’t always fun and cute but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important

[pinkoil]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_RKSUhuvy/

[wezpee]

fox mulder has adhd <3

[hazy-october]

source

[gayeames]

We played in the leaves today (16.10.17)

[farmhouselove]

https://www.instagram.com/countryhomemagazine/

[cur-vy]

[helperhoopoe]

remember to cry for help without guilt-tripping. i know it feels like you’ve been abandoned and betrayed, but it’s probably not true, and it’s not okay to accuse the people around you of something they might not have done.

“i guess none of you like me” could be better phrased as “i feel unloved right now”

“but nobody cares anyway” could be better phrased as “i feel insignificant and i need reassurance”

rather than assuming others’ feelings, give them time to explain them. you’ll usually get a much better answer.

[randomslasher]

This is really important for future predictions, too. “You’re eventually going to leave me” is impossible for someone else to disprove without just sticking around forever, but no one wants to stick around when they’re being constantly accused of future abandonment. Giving someone no choice but to either stay with you forever in order to prove you wrong or leave you and prove you right is incredibly emotionally manipulative, whether you mean it to be or not.

“I get scared sometimes because I’m afraid of being alone again” is easier to address and doesn’t leave your partner(s)/friend(s) feeling as though they’re being preemptively accused of something.  

[octoberistheonlyimportantmonth]

[notreewaits-deactivated20200806]

Toddlers are so pure. She doesn’t understand that we help her with certain things because she’s little. She thinks that everyone just helps each other like that. So she tries to blow on my food and cut it up for me and tries to help me put on my shoes.

[pussysoupforthesoul-deactivated]

i was giving little wagon rides to a baby around the backyard one day and all of a sudden she hops off and slaps the seat of the wagon telling me to get on because it was my turn and i was like no it’s ok im too heavy and she was like NO ITS UR TURN and kept tugging on my hand so i would sit down. eventually i got on and it was just a little 2 year old trying so hard to push me around on a wagon not understanding why it wouldn’t budge but still so determined to let me have my turn lol

[llywela13]

I don’t think I’d realised how many casual compliments we pay to our toddler until she started casually complimenting us back, because experience has taught her that’s How Social Interaction Is Done, and there’s nothing quite like a very earnest three-year-old solemnly and sincerely informing you that you look wonderful and smell nice to make you feel really good about yourself

I tell her she’s my best girl. She tells me I’m her best auntie. Then we both feel good about the world!

[ladyofatraditionalkind]

Teach them kindness.

[banrions]

my little cousin is 3 and she stands there and goes “you’re doing it!” whenever i’m like, making food for us, or doing the laundry, or pushing her in a stroller up a hill. she is the most encouraging sweetheart. 

[sweater-weather]

[half--agony--half--hope]

[neverlandnurse]

Mental health isn’t just something that effects adults, it’s important in children to!